Adoration

Those who like their Goth quite chilled and indiefied might want to keep an eye on this three piece who finally have an album due this summer.

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Batcave Night in London

This is shaping up quite nicely for the 11th of July. Sex Gang Children and Specimen will be playing in 84/83 line ups, followed by a club night til 6am with DJ Hamish and other folks entertaining.

Check out the Batcave Myspace for more.

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Review Policy

Most music reviewed on the weblog is music that has been bought, and therefore music we think is good in the first place.

So don't be surprised if scores are frequently high. We don't tend to buy music that we don't think is up to much!

We are happy to review unsolicited submissions that fall roughly in the genres we cover. This includes the artier and edgier end of the indie scene, different varieties of punk, minimal and experimental industrial and electronica, and 'goth' that is in the spirit of '79-'83 rather than closer to dark trance or stadium rock. We don't do metal, although sleaze and bluesy rock may find an ear here.

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The Brides : Sofa City Sweetheart

I must admit that US fourpiece The Brides are one of those outfits I have been aware of but never really listened to. I now have a back catalogue to go through, but in the meantime I want to review their latest album, because it is just so good.

The Brides bring together a range of musical influences, Goth, Post-Punk, Caberet, Rockabilly, Glam, New-Wave and it is hard to think of many equivalent artists - The Soho Dolls have tried to do the same think in the UK with some mainstream sucess, but The Brides just seem to pull the whole thing off so much better.

Sound for a Pound Collection 2007

What is Punk? Is Punk dead?

Well that is an interesting question. I guess you can go back to the garage rock of The Modern Lovers, through the glam of The New York Dolls, to the art-school influenced work of Adam and the Ants, Wire and all the other acts that spawned Art-Punk and Post-Punk. Punk is raw energetic rock and roll with an intelectual edge that subverts traditional gender and societal roles. From a British perspective it is riddled with folks like me, people from Working Class backgrounds who go to university thanks to a socialist taxation system and want to Rip it up and Start again.

Violet Violet, These New Puritans, Blood Red Shoes

As I made my way to this gig I was listening to Wire's Chairs Missing, an Art Punk classic. A fitting intro for two of tonight's bands.

The venue was the Junction 2 in Cambridge. With a capacity of over 200, and about that many there, this was a bit larger than my preference for gigs. Give me the back room in a pub any day.

Manic Depression offers Poisened Dead Frogs

Which happens to be a free two disc compilation available here

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